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New Discovered Archaeological Sites in Nushki District of Balochistan (A Field Report) - 59 - BI-ANNUAL RESEARCH JOURNAL “BALOCHISTAN REVIEW” ISSN 1810-2174 Balochistan Study Centre, UoB, Quetta (Pak) VOL. XXVIII NO.1, 2013 NEW DISCOVERED ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES IN NUSHKI DISTRICT OF BALOCHISTAN (A FIELD REPORT) History Farooq Baloch*& Waheed Razzaq† Abstract: Balochistan is known as a mother land of ancient cultures because, of its countless Archaeological sites. Balochistan is divided among three countries, Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, and the part Pakistan consists approximately 3, 47,190, square kilometer, and it is 44% out of the total area of Pakistan. It is further divided into 6 Divisions and 30 Districts. Every district has a huge importance by its Archaeological sites which consist on Mounds, Graveyards, Tombs, Inscriptions, Karezes and Ancient Dames etc. Some very important sites are excavated by the Archaeologists, like Mehrgarh in Bolan District, Peerak in Sibi District, Mound of Killi Gul Mohammad in Quetta District, Pariano Ghundai in Zhob District, Anjeera in Kalat District, Bala Kot in Bela District and Meeri Kalat in Kech District, etc., large number of archaeological sites have been discovered but still they are not excavated. On the other side different archaeolocial sites of Balochistan are still unexplored. Many sites are still hidden and not discovered by any Archaeologist, the sites of Nushki District have always been ignored by local peopal and Archaeologists. In the espect of Archaeology Nushki has also many attractive and important archaeological sites. The following research article is about the new discovered Archaeological sites in the Nushki District by a team of Balochistan study centre. The objectives behind this study are to overview the new Archaeological sites in the Nushki District and explain their historical, cultural, anthropological and social importance. This study is descriptive in nature, both primary and secondary sources were consulted and for this purpose field work was also done by the team of Balochistan Study Center. * Assistant Professor (History), Balochistan Study Centre, University of Balochistan, Quetta-Pak. † Research Officer, Balochistan Study Centre, University of Balochistan, Quetta-Pak - 60 - Key words: Ancient Ruins, Antique Mafia, Balochistan, Bahtto, Dak, Gabrbast, Graveyard, Neel, Nokjo, Nushki, Mall, Zoroastrian. INTRODUCTION The archaeological sites easily observe in Balochistan in the form of mounds, graves, dames, karez (under ground water channel), and tombs etc. Every district of the province is rich in several kinds of archaeological sites in which Nushki is also counted one of the ancient archaeolocial areas. This area has been always ignored by experts, writers and researchers. Due to that reason history of Nushki has remained disclosed. Many sources decleared Nushki has a part of ancient Siestan. (Government Record: 1997) The word Nushki is not older then five or six centurie, this word is drived from some oral statements. The area was the part of Chagai District up to 2004-05 and than it alienated as a district from Chagai. The district is divided into 10 Union Councils. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Most of the historians decleared Nushki as part of Sistan but were not able to mention its contemparay name. Commonly the area known as the “Valley of Khaesar” because of the Khaesar Stream which flow from the northern mountains and entered in Nushki. The fort is standing on top of a rock near the bed of stream. It was the major source of water for the area but now it is dry and flow only in the heavy rains. The area is very famous for its dry and dangerous desert which is situated in the north and south of the area and this deseart is a part of famous desert of Lut (Iran). How it can be possible that such an important area remained without a particular name in history. May be it discussed in the books with different names but not be founded yet. A historian gives a statement about the fort of Khaesar Stream. As early mentioned that the early history of Nushki has remained hidden, but the present archaeological sites explored different historical eras in this area. These sites mostly predominated by the Hindu rulers and fire worshippers. This area was the part of Chagai for long time, so the some reliable sources give the following statement about the entire area. Says that, “Little is known of the ancient history of Chagai. There is a complete absence of all records, and the local traditions and vague and unreliable. The earliest monuments are the ruins of terraced embankment or “Gaurbastas” which are found at the foot of the Raskoh hills and which, like similar remains in the lower parts of Balochistan, are ascribed to the Gabrs or fire-worshipper. The next traces of ancient history are the square shaped - 61 - tombs, met with in the western portion of the District (Chagai), which are attributed by local tradition to the Kaianis of the Achamaenenian dynasty of Persia. The remains of cupolas, ruined forts and karezes which are found in different parts of the District, are usually assigned to the Arabs, and may, perhaps, be correctly said to date from the “Arab period” during the neighboring province of Siestan attained the climax of its prosperity. They are also, sometimes, attributed to the Mughals, and in any case indicate the presence of a higher civilization than is now found among the Baloch Brahvi inhabitants (tribes) of the country. The waves of conquest and re-conquest which passed over its neighbors do not seem to have left much permanent mark on the country, and it is possible that Chagai, secure in the shelter of its deserts and possessing little to tempt the adventurous, did not play a very important part in those troublous times.” (Ibid: 1997) The area faced many invasions from the outsiders up to the Baloch reign. According to the ancient sources this area was first invaded by the Mongol tatars. This invasion is verbally memorized by the inhabitants of the area. The local traditional historians mostly trace the history of the area from the invasion of Mongols. Some tribes of the area claimed that they entered in the area during or after Mongol invasion. But these statements have no historical support. According to an author that, “There are traditions of invasions from the north and north-west, but these are very vague, and the invaders are always said to have been the Mongols (known to the people of the country as the Mughals). About 1223 A.D. a Mongol expedition under Chagatai, the son of Chingiz Khan, is said to have penetrated as far as Makran; and in 1383 Miran Shah, the son of Timur, led another expedition into Keren (Kharan). It is not known if these invasions actually passed through Chagai, but their influence must have made itself felt throughout the country.” (Ibid: 1997) According to some non authentic verbal sources, the Baloch tribes settled in the area after the end of Mongol rule. According to local traditions that the Baloch tribes assert that their ancestors found the country depopulated and a desert waste. The district, at this time, probably formed a part of Kandhar and shared in the fluctuations of its possession, but the normal condition of the Baloch seems to have been one of semi-independence. They appear to have been firmly established at the beginning of the sixteenth century. But this statement base on verbal and local traditions and has no historical support. According to some very reliable sources that during the reign of Mughals of India the Nushki was under the Baloch tribes, and in Humayun’s period, Malik Khati Khan was the chief of this area, who saved the Mughal Royal Family of India at Chagai. According to Humayun Nama, - 62 - “One night, after a long march, the barking of a dog was heard. The Emperor (Humayun) had hardly time to observe that some habitations must be at hand, when a party of the Baloch met and stopped them. They spoken in their own language, which was not understood, but fortunately one of the ladies, who was with the Emperor’s suite was herself a Baloch, the wife of an officer in his service. She was employed to interpret, and it appeared that they were followers of Malik Khati, a Baloch chief, whom Abulfazl styles the Captain General of the banditti of the desert. Their leader being at the moment absent, his people, on finding that it was the Emperor, insisted that the little troop should not pass onward without their master’s leave. The Emperor was obliged to comply and entering the fort, the free-booters salaamed to him respectfully, spread a carpet on which he and Hamida Begum (mother of the great Akbar) sat down and supplied the wants of the party with all the hospitality of the desert. When day began to dawn, as the Emperor was engaged in his morning prayers Malik Khati, who had been sent for, returned.” (Ibid: 1997) The author of above book gives more details of this important and historical event in the following word, “The Emperor’s peaceable entrance into the fort, which gave him the character of a guest, had roused the robber’s sense of honor. Saluting the Emperor, and making the usual polite inquiries after his health, the chief informed him, that three days before an order from Kamran Mirza suffer the Emperor Humayun to pass that way, but to seize and make him a prisoner. “But” added he, “now that your Majesty has visited me, on my head and eyes be it. Yet it is better that you should ride on and I will myself conduct you to the borders.” (Ibid: 1997) This very important statement proofs that the Baloch tribes had a very strong power established in the area of Chagai and Nushki, and had their own Chief and rulers.
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